ADRIFT: ICELAND, THE CRISIS OF 2008, AND THE CHALLENGE OF REINTEGRATION INTO THE GLOBAL ECONOMY

The Icelandic experience of boom and subsequent bust in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis is an extreme example of the vulnerabilities and tough choices faced by states in the current global economic order. This paper will use historical analysis, international relations theory, and some aspects of international political economy to illustrate how the crisis came about, was dealt with, and the options faced by Iceland going forward as it seeks to re-integrate into the global economy. In so doing, this should provide a useful analysis for scholars seeking an interdisciplinary explanation of these myriad factors in a single source

Tribal Governance in American Indian Country

Public Administrators seek to synthesize, comprehend, and clarify challenging problems of social progress as it relates to the administration of public services. We must, therefore, think about all forms of governance to have a comprehensive understanding of the discipline. If civilization ignored the prehistory of the past 600 million years, from the Late Precambrian Era through the Mesozoic, there would be a consequential loss of knowledge. A comprehensive understanding would be absent regarding one of the fundamentals in our evolution – life\u27s ability to avoid demise by symbiosis and adaptation. In the same way, we may have overlooked an essential role, the civilization once governed by the indigenous population that preceded the United States. Although there has been a detailed examination of federal, state, metropolitan and local governance, the discipline of public administration has small scholarship relating to tribal governance in American Indian Country. Learning more about this type of governance has the potential to lead to new approaches in the discipline. A new examination of American Indian tribal governance may contribute to a more transparent and accurate window that provides a vibrant and well-defined perspective for the academic discipline

A Prairie Dog Abatement Program in San Juan County, Utah

Four species of prairie dogs are native to the plains and plateaus of the western United States. The most abundant and widely distributed of these is the blacktailed prairie dog, (Cynomys ludovicianus). This species has been a frequent topic of discussion at previous Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control workshops. Black-tailed prairie dog ecology and management was the topic of a panel discussion held at the Fifth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop, in Lincoln, Nebraska (Timm and Johnson 1982) and the theme topic at the Eighth Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop in Rapid City, South Dakota (Uresk et al. 1988). The remaining three prairie dog species, all in the white-tail group, occur in Utah. These are the white-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys leucurus) in eastern and northeastern Utah, the Zuni Or Gunnison\u27s prairie dog (C. gunnisonii) in southeastern Utah, and the Utah prairie dog (C. parvidens in southcentral Utah. Of these, the Utah prairie dog is federally recognized as a threatened species. Although the ecology of the white-tail prairie dog group has been studied, much of the information reported deals with behavioral aspects. Very few studies deal directly with population ecology (Longhurst 1944, Tileston and Lechleitner 1966, Clark 1977, Elmore et al. 1976, Menkens et al. 1988). Although aspects of white-tail group and black-tailed ecology may be similar, their life histories differ (Longhurst 1944, Tileston and Lechleitner 1966, Campbell and Clark 1981, Hoogland et al. 1988, Menkens et al. 1988). Knowledge of these differences are important in designing and implementing programs to manage the damage caused by species of the white-tail prairie dog group. The purpose of this paper therefore is twofold. First, I will review and compare the ecology of the white-tail prairie dog groups as they occur in Utah and the West to that of the black-tailed prairie dog. Secondly, I will discuss management of the damage caused by the white-tail prairie dog group in Utah through the implementation of coordinated county-wide abatement programs. This latter discussion will describe program efforts conducted in southeastern Utah\u27s San Juan County to manage damage associated with the Gunnison\u27s prairie dog

Piecewise polynomial functions on a planar region: boundary constraints and polyhedral subdivisions

Splines are piecewise polynomial functions of a given order of smoothness r on a triangulated region (or polyhedrally subdivided region) of Rd. The set of splines of degree at most k forms a vector space Crk() Moreover, a nice way to study Cr k()is to embed n Rd+1, and form the cone b of with the origin. It turns out that the set of splines on b is a graded module Cr b() over the polynomial ring R[x1; : : : ; xd+1], and the dimension of Cr k() is the dimension o This dissertation follows the works of Billera and Rose, as well as Schenck and Stillman, who each approached the study of splines from the viewpoint of homological and commutative algebra. They both defined chain complexes of modules such that Cr(b) appeared as the top homology module. First, we analyze the effects of gluing planar simplicial complexes. Suppose 1, 2, and = 1 [ 2 are all planar simplicial complexes which triangulate pseudomanifolds. When 1 \ 2 is also a planar simplicial complex, we use the Mayer-Vietoris sequence to obtain a natural relationship between the spline modules Cr(b), Cr (c1), Cr(c2), and Cr( \ 1 \ 2). Next, given a simplicial complex , we study splines which also vanish on the boundary of. The set of all such splines is denoted by Cr(b). In this case, we will discover a formula relating the Hilbert polynomials of Cr(cb) and Cr (b). Finally, we consider splines which are defined on a polygonally subdivided region of the plane. By adding only edges to to form a simplicial subdivision , we will be able to find bounds for the dimensions of the vector spaces Cr k() for k 0. In particular, these bounds will be given in terms of the dimensions of the vector spaces Cr k() and geometrical data of both and . This dissertation concludes with some thoughts on future research questions and an appendix describing the Macaulay2 package SplineCode, which allows the study of the Hilbert polynomials of the spline modules